"You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that."

-- Emmylou Harris

#Grieving Quotes #Color Quotes #People Quotes

“I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.”

Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
“People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.”
“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.”
“For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.”

Source : "The Historian". Book by Elizabeth Kostova, June, 2005.
“You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.”
“You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.”
“No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.”

Source : Niall Ferguson (2011). “Civilization: The West and the Rest”, p.107, Penguin
“As I grew up I realized, though imperfectly, that I was different from other people, and that the way of life in my home was different from that in the homes of others....This stimulated me to introspection and strange mental questionings.”

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